A new effort, Thriving Families, Safer Children, aims to move from traditional, reactive child protection systems to those designed to support child and family well-being and prevent child maltreatment and unnecessary family separations. Read the news release.
Written for child welfare agencies nationwide, a new Casey Foundation fact sheet explores how kinship care can support children and how agencies can support kin families during the coronavirus pandemic.
In a webinar, experts describes how child welfare leaders can use a new resource to develop a fiscal analysis of prevention services provided under the federal Family First Prevention Services Actand shares the experience of a state leader. Watch the webinar.
Read about how the Annie E. Casey Foundation is working to support interventions that reduce congregate care from its current level of 16% of all foster care placements nationally to about 5 to 10% in the next five years and to move those children as quickly as possible toward lifelong family connections and permanent homes.
National Foster Care Month, providing an opportunity to highlight the critical role of all supportive adults — parents, foster parents, kinship caregivers, mentors and others — to love and care for kids. Learn how Casey is sharing its ideas with the U.S. Children's Bureau.
In a recorded webinar, a child welfare leader discusses how to keep elements of a preventive practice model in mind while dealing with the challenges and immediate needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the webinar now.
A new webinar highlights how to use Family First’s substance use disorder provisions to help families. Watch the webinar now.
More than 2.7 million children in America live in kinship care — when relatives raise children whose parents no longer can. Explore reports and resources on kinship care.
As the nation grapples with the public health crisis of COVID-19, child welfare systems must prioritize the urgent and unique needs of older youth in foster care and those who have left (or aged out of) foster care without permanent family connections. Read seven recommendations for young people.
Foster care is a temporary living situation for children whose parents can't take care of them and whose need for care has come to the attention of child welfare. Learn more about foster care and foster parents here.
